A MOTHER sat calmly texting on her mobile phone as doctors battled to save her 16-week-old baby daughter after she staged the tot's death on a busy London bus, a court heard.

Rosalin Baker, 25, and boyfriend Jeffrey Wiltshire, 52, are alleged to have battered little Imani to death at his tiny bedsit in Manor Park, east London.

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Rosalin Baker is accused of texting on her mobile phone as doctors battled to save her 16-week-old baby daughter

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Baker and boyfriend Jeffrey Wiltshire are alleged to have battered little Imani to death at his tiny bedsit

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PC Georgia Ross today told jurors Bakerbut refused to leave for Newham General Hospital until she had swapped phones with her sister

The Old Bailey has heard how Wiltshire, who has fathered 23 children, gave Baker a thumbs up as she hopped on the number 25 with her dead baby strapped to her chest in a sling on the morning of 28 September last year.

Passengers tried to help after Baker raised the alarm some 20 minutes into the journey until the ambulance arrived.

PC Georgia Ross today told jurors Baker was sitting in the back of the ambulance as paramedics carried treated Imani, but refused to leave for Newham General Hospital until she had swapped phones with her sister.

She told the court: "She was sitting in the back of the ambulance. Paramedics were still giving her CPR and she was staring at the floor.

"There was no emotion. She wasn't crying, she was staring at the floor and had her phone in her hand."

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